Friday, January 30, 2009

My Friend Pomelo, A Portrait Gallery

Do you know my friend Pomelo? Pomelo is really great. I met Pomelo at the farmer's market a couple of years ago, and we have been good friends ever since.

Pomelo is enormous! In our family, only Musty's head is able to dwarf Pomelo.Even Pomelo's rind is about 1 inch thick. On the inside, Pomelo is dark pink, like a ruby grapefruit. In fact, Pomelo tastes like a sweet pink grapefruit.

Pomelo is much bigger than Yummer's head. Yummers loves human food, but prefers to keep his distance from Pomelo.

Snoopy and Pomelo get along well. Snoopy even took Pomelo off the computer desk all by himself! Maybe he was looking for a play date?

Pomelo is pretty classy, and he costs about $2.00, but I think he's worth it.

Dottie is diplomatic with Pomelo, but they are not very close.

Stevie Wonder is a bit wary of Pomelo... especially when Pomelo is trying to get so close.

I'm a huge red grapefruit fan (I peel and eat one like an orange every weekday), but the pomelo I tried was not juicy and quite bitter. I haven't bought another one since. It sounds like you've had different experiences, so maybe I'll give them a second chance...I mean, if it's going to bring out my inner femme-bot, it's worth another go, right? ;)

I've only tried it once, but remember being disappointed, thinking "all that work and so much of it is PEEL?" It was almost as small as an orange inside! Maybe I just got a bad one. . .you make it sound like fun!

This is my first visit to your blog, and I absolutely had to comment on this post! When I first moved to Hawaii six years ago we lived in a house with a tree in the yard that grew enormous grapefruit-like orbs. These orbs perplexed us until a neighbor explained to us what they were: pomelo. We would have so many at once that we would go bowling with pomelos through our yard and down the driveway. So .... pomelo: he loves to bowl.

molly!yay!so glad you have you drop by. Musty really does have a giant head!

Gail!I love your pomelo tale. Wow, a pomelo tree! Sounds like heaven. But, I guess if you were living in Hawaii, it really was heaven. Thanks for deepening my understanding of Pomelo, I really appreciate it!

Hahahaha, a very funny post. I love the pictures with the animals. I've seen these gargantuan pomelos at the markets but have always been a little nervous about trying one. I'm thinking next time I'll have to go for it.